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We are so excited to be performing our CMA Commission at Weill Recital Hall - Join us on January 14 to hear the world premiere of Reza Vali's Calligraphy No. 15 "Raak"!

Metamorphosis is up for consideratioin in the 59th Grammys Awards first round of voting for nomination in the following categories:
- Album of the Year
- Best Instrumental Jazz Album
- Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
- Record of the Year - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
- Best Instrumental Composition - Kai-Fusion & Cry Of Hope

From Brahms sextets to the Ravel trio, MSYAP is so very pleased to receive four file cabinets full of music donated by Peter Marsh. MSYAP now has a music library for its students!

The Atlanta Chamber Players announce their concert programs for the 2016-2017 season. World Premieres, a Free Concert, and an All-Norwegian Program are some of the highlights. Read the press release here.

The Allegria Ensemble has received a grant from the PA Council on the Arts to perform concerts in Centre County schools in May of 2017. Our program is "How to Listen to Classical Music" and features our trio of violin, oboe, and cello performing many short works from 1600 to contemporary music during CMA Chamber Music month.

Our first part of our CMA residency at the Richmond Art Center was "Why Patterns?" The kids were inspired by music of Terry Riley, DBR, and Ruth Crawford and went on to make fabulous art.

Haven will premiere "TWINGE" at the Dallas Museum of Art, Saturday, November 12, 2016. "TWINGE" is a 45 -minute chamber work for soprano, clarinet, and piano inspired by Barry Bearak’s New York Times Magazine article,“The Day The Sea Came”.

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MeiaMeia (Portuguese for "half a dozen, half a dozen") is a twelve-work cycle composed by Projeto Arcomusical members Gregory Beyer and Alexis C. Lamb. Performed on elegant handcrafted berimbaus made by David White, recorded by Dan Nichols at Aphorism Studios, the album will be released by Innova Recordings in October 2016.

In this – the group’s debut recording for Delos – we are treated to a fascinating and beautifully played program centered on works by Russian master Alfred Schnittke alongside music both old and new by Beethoven and Spain’s Octavio Vasquez.

The music from Shores featured a highly complex approach to rhythm, harmony and form, and was both preoccupied with the jazz tradition and departing from it radically. Clockworks is about scales of time: time within a beat, within a phrase, a movement, a piece, and within an oeuvre, over a span of decades.